On 05/09/2013 01:37 PM, Hans Leidekker wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 18:56 +0200, wine....@web.de wrote: >> Hi Hans. >> >>>> lcms2 was released on 8. May 2010 >>>> lcms v1 is on the way to be phased out in the newest >>>> distribution versions. >> >>> Are there any distributions that have released without v1? >> >> I don't know, but Ubuntu has a bug for replacing lcms v1. >> >> There is no reason, that Wine is the last app, which depends on lcms v1. > > For most apps it will be a matter of adding a configure check for lcms2 > and then recompiling. This is not the case for Wine as you have pointed out. > > At this point there's probably still a substantial number of users on > distributions that don't include lcms2, and trying to support both doesn't > make the source any prettier. > > So it doesn't seem unreasonable to wait a little longer. >
On the Ubuntu side, all supported versions have liblcms2. As far as source prettiness goes, it will be much easier to manage the transition as a distribution if we can know that Wine is ready rather than waiting on others to act (who in turn may be doing the same thing). Thanks, Scott